But you better believe

You could be a black bird On a country street Hiding from the world with a broken wing But you better believe, you gonna fly . . .

Thank you – Colin & Ray for your prompt to post a smiling picture of mine. Couldn’t find a better one than this one taken on last Sunday at Lothal – one of the most prominent cities of the ancient Indus valley civilization, located in the Bhāl region of the modern state of Gujarāt and dating from 3700 BCE.

I had been there on a short picnic with my friends and family and although I had an injured right foot, I absolutely couldn’t resist trying the jumping pose to get my picture clicked 😀 Too risky, but worth every bit 🙂

I have a lot of pictures clicked of my Lothal trip including beautiful pictures of the excavated site and the Museum of artifacts. Do let me know in the comments below if you’d like to see a photo blog (would be first one for me) on the same 🙂

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Hi Himali – Always interested in antiquities, so please feel free to post pics. I love to stand in really ancient areas and visualize what it would have looked like when it was an active part of a culture! I used to visit old castles and churches in UK and look at the wear marks on the stone steps… and wonder who contributed to that wear. Even my grandmother’s house in Birmingham had a stone doorstep and my older sister and I used to stay with her for two weeks most Summers when we were very young. That step is still there, and my sister and I would have contributed to the wear pattern! 🙂

Wow, the wear pattern is something unique I heard and now onwards, I’d also now notice it around me. A home with a stone doorstep sounds amazing. How lucky for you and your sister to spend your Summers with your grandmother in that picturesque home.

I also love to see the ancient monuments and historical sites and see how the people in those civilizations lived.

Ha! never saw an action
photo of Himali yet
and i Do Love
the Dance
of Life
you bring
to this jumping
for joy up up and
away photo for fun..
however.. hAha.. i don’t recommend
flip flops for jumping makes ankle
injuries more risky hehe.. but hey
it’s worth this photo for sure as all
the fun we bring to photos is
Defeating Entropy
for the Energy
Force Synergy
of our Emotions
and Senses remains
for other folks to enjoy
for time immemorial
always now
my friend
and a photo blog.. yes..
sure.. bring it on as i am
surely one to output words
but a visual/auditory/touch/feel thinker i am first..
And sure.. NoW.. i love to write to the emotions
and the senses photos bRing and tRuly
a photo like this my friEnd is worth a
thoUsand Himali words too.. aLong
NoW
with
the
HiMaLi Story
WiTh even more SMiLes
And Hugs of Generous Love..
And true.. i am so enthralled with
Happiness by Seeing the Joy
of your Jump i almost missed
your Words of Poetry my friEnd
it’s true birds with broken wings often eventually
fly highest for they more fully understand Fly Value
my friend
for
better
believe
when liGht
falls to dArk
And Phoenix
aRises and flies from
Ashes of Broken Wings oF LiFE..:)
Anyway.. you additionAlly break
A Stereotype heAR Now too
that Accountants don’t Dance..
It’s true.. every Accountant
Should Dance while they
Eat tHeir Lunch Break too..
For i too my Friend was surely an
Accountant of epic proportions true
still am
in many
ways too as sure.. life
is a numbers gAMe too..
While God’s Music is always
playing in the Back Ground
inviting us to DancE and SinG LiFE as Heaven Now Play..:)

Nah.. it isn’t a thousand words.. just.. 337.. now including all
the words on the other two comment responses but who’s a counting..;)

My, Himali, this is such a beautiful photo. I love your shining smile and all the joy this photo radiates. I hope your foot was not worse after the shot because it would have been a shame to miss this!

Haha! Here in the US, the word “sick” is often synonymous with “cool” (referring to how socially acceptable something is, and not its temperature!). So when you wrote, “one sick campsite,” I thought you meant “One cool campsite.” Oh, the nuances of language 🙂

Was thinking to ask where this was. Yes, please do a photo blog!!!! Personally, I love looking at pictures and working with them (well, you’ve seen my blog), so yes please. Pretty, pretty please. With strawberries and cherries on top (just to mangle a line from my all time favorite song, Summer Wine.

You Knight has missed you upon this day, now binds his words to a Loving note.
As I sit beneath the Rising Moon, by a Castle’s dreaming moat.
A line to say ‘sweet dreams Ice Queen’, my Muse, my dote.
In poems written with a Poet’s Love, to you his Musing Himalayan mote.
~*~.

P.S: My Lady, may I beg an indulgence from thee? You ask is readers would enjoy a Photo-Blog Post. Before you do so, might I dare ask that you choose with great care 12 photographs of you that best express the3 totality of Himali, and I will write poems for these images and publish them in our collaborative project, ‘The Diary of Rosewood Himali’, on Dewin Nefol. May I also ask one thing more – and that being you choose a 13th photograph, ideally a close up of your face expressing those qualities about your unfathomable Beauty, which you find most attractive about yourself? Pretty please? 🙂

Was that a little knock I heard upon you chamber door?
Do you think there’ll be a note from a Knight on your floor?
Will you retrieve it, read it, keep it safe in a diary?
Inside a little book of Love we’ll call Rosewood Himali.

~*~

O compile away! Compile away!
Dewin’s email is warm and waiting this day!
Tis music to my ears, My Ice Lady Himali,
To know soon I will be gazing fondly upon thee.
~
I feel my Quill’s flitter, my feather’s feathered flutter,
Dance about inside my tum eager to dash never stutter!
It’s all I can do to contain my Fire:
The burning yearning of an Artist’s desire!
~
12 photographs to express the totality of you.
Married to Loving words inspired deep within me.
Yet even a million lines would be one million too few.
One million too few for my Sweet Rosewood Himali

~*~

From your Red Knight sat saddled upon his sturdy-stead in Romantic shining pose.
This note a dote for his shining mote, a stanza or two in hip-fired prose

Thank you My Lady for indulging my fancy with 12 photographs…I am nervous and excited and keen to gaze and weave a web of silky words for thee, my Spicy Rosewood Himali 🙂

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